A few days ago, I launched my new YouTube channel with a video inspired by the post “A Mother’s Influence.” As a result, someone approached me and said to me: “You are really OBSESSED with this mom thing.” These lines are attributed to Victor Hugo: “She broke the bread into two fragments and gave them …
I’m always speaking about magnifying our calling of motherhood. In doing so, I may at times neglect the fundamental and urgent role of fathers in our family, the main rock of any society. While it’s true that fatherlessness is common – and even hip – in our times, it has been called “The Central Social Problem …
The week after Valentine’s Day, I took the girls on a weekend getaway at a fabulous resort in Captiva Island FL. The weather was gorgeous, the island vistas breathtaking, and the resort setting to live for. The girls requested to be enrolled in a 3-hour program called Sanibel Sea School. They strolled around learning about …
Napoleon Hill is one of the greatest writers and speakers in personal development and author of Think and Grow Rich, one of the best-selling books of all times. Highly influenced by Andrew Carnegie, one of Napoleon Hill‘s hallmark expressions is “What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” He shared 17 …
Whether you call it the Universe, the Creator of the universe, a Higher Power, Spirit, The Light, The Mystery… most of us humans believe in an omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent power. Presumably, God (which is my name of choice for this undeniable force) could really easily give us anything we want. After all, He knows …
The birth of a child is the most miraculous event to ever take place. I cannot imagine anything more meaningful, symbolic, painful yet magical. The miracle of life. I always celebrate my children’s birthdays as the days I became a mother. Like Mother’s Day, it’s nice to have established dates to commemorate special experiences and …
Right before Christmastime, my girls were learning about Jane Goodall and talking about their love for animals.Elyssa, my youngest, kept asking questions about where meat, eggs and milk came from. My honest yet careful answers still disturbed her. Many say “I don’t eat anything with a face”; at that moment, my daughter’s vowed to ” never …
Throughout my life, I’ve seen, heard, and read numerous stories about characters obsessing about a “Fountain Of Youth”. Plastic surgery, hair dye, botox, and special creams are advertised everywhere online and offline to rejuvenate you, take years off your face, neck, hands, you name it…and don’t get me started on “prevention techniques”. There are ways …
I once believed conflict to be an evil that must be avoided at all costs. Some of my misconceptions may be familiar to you: Conflict is bad because it means we are fighting. If you disagree with me or can’t see my point, you don’t “like” me. If we are not understanding each other, why …
I grew up in a small valley where we only had access to one radio station (Radio Ocoa) and no newspaper. Every day, around noon or so, they would announce the town obituaries and I used to be fascinated by them. I started to write my obituary/eulogy wherever I could – on the back page of …